[cuchulainn]

Um, doing it "for the children" is not a new tactic :rolleyes:

from The Sun (Minnesota)

http://www.mnsun.com/story.asp?city=Bloomington&story=123450

Group pledges fight over concealed gun law

By Harvey T. Rockwood
Sun Newspapers
(Created 11/6/03 8:40:10 AM)

Asserting that the state’s conceal-carry handgun permit law goes against Minnesota tradition, a Bloomington woman says the organization she helped found will fight to repeal the statute.

Kim Stanley, a Bloomington mother who has been fighting the conceal-carry law for months, unveiled a new tactic in her quest to get the measure repealed.

Stanley said at a Sunday afternoon press conference that the organization, the Repeal Conceal Coalition, will work to tie the issue to school violence as it works to get the conceal-carry law repealed during the 2004 session of the Legislature.

The new law makes schools more dangerous, Stanley said.

“The more guns that are on our streets, the more guns that are going to find their way into our schools,” she said.

“This is not ‘Minnesota,’” Stanley said. “This law does not match up with our traditions in this state.”

Stanley said the organization has received commitments from the Bloomington and Richfield school boards to discuss the issue. She said she would also urge them to go on record asking for the repeal.

Stanley said her organization intends to seek commitments from legislators to work for repeal.

“Thirteen legislators who are teachers voted for this law,” Stanley said. “Are they thinking of their students?”

She insisted that the majority of Minnesotans oppose allowing most citizens to carry concealed firearms.

Bonnie Noel, a member of the Bloomington School Board, also spoke against the law, as did Richard Broderick, a Green Party candidate for the St. Paul school board. Several teachers also appeared at the press conference, which took place at the Bloomington Ice Garden.

“This is not an anti-gun movement,” Broderick said. Repeal advocates do not want to take away lawful firearms, he said.

He said adoption of the conceal-carry measure was the work of “a small band of right-wing extremists who hijacked the Legislature.”

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[dandean316]

Same old, same old. I hope these people keep talking because it just makes everyone realize what idiots they are.

Are you from MN? I'm thinking about getting a grass roots coalition together to go on the offensive against these clowns.

[Standing Wolf]

“The more guns that are on our streets, the more guns that are going to find their way into our schools,” she said.

She's a complete fool, and anyway, Missouri's leftist extremists have taken the prize away from Minnesota's for the loudest snivelling and whining.

[jdege]

Uner the prior law, it was perfectly legal for a permit holder to carry a handgun in a school.

Under the new law, it's a misdemeanor to carry a handgun in a school.

I agree, that makes the schools less safe.

I fully support her efforts to have the public school exclusion repealed ;)

[Carlos]

Stanley said at a Sunday afternoon press conference that the organization, the Repeal Conceal Coalition, will work to tie the issue to school violence as it works to get the conceal-carry law repealed during the 2004 session of the Legislature.

The new law makes schools more dangerous, Stanley said.

God, what a moron.

[goalie]

Funny article.

I was at work last night (Abbott Hospital in Minneapolis) when a co-worker started talking about the law and how it should be repealed. I laughed and told her that if they repeal that law, then everyone with a permit can start carrying in schools again JUST LIKE THEY COULD BEFORE THE LAW WAS CHANGED. It was pretty funny to see the change when, after a little searching on the internet, she had all of the facts. Our problem in Minnesota stemmed from the fact that the vast majority of citizens in the metro area had no idea that most counties in the rest of the state were issuing permits already. They did not realize that this law actually makes it much harder to obtain a permit, and is much more restrictive on where one is allowed to carry with a permit.

Now my fully informed co-worker thinks that the new law is just fine.

Good guys 1 Liars 0

[greyhound]

Uner the prior law, it was perfectly legal for a permit holder to carry a handgun in a school.

Yes, but under the old law, the esteemed Sheriffs had the power to arbitrarily deny CCW to "soft white guys who look in the mirror and don't like what they see".

Hey, Minnesota sheriffs, put that in your pipe and smoke it!

[Frohickey]

Okay...

So when is the Repeal Conceal Coalition going to make false documents for criminals to get CCWs so that they are arrested with a CCW permit in hand while they commit their crimes?

Or, when are Repeal Conceal Coalition members going to apply for CCW permits and intentionally commit gun crimes with them?